diff --git a/deployer/devstack/ceilometer b/deployer/devstack/ceilometer
index bd184be..96236d3 100644
--- a/deployer/devstack/ceilometer
+++ b/deployer/devstack/ceilometer
@@ -207,7 +207,7 @@ function configure_ceilometer {
     sudo install -d -o $STACK_USER -m 755 $CEILOMETER_CONF_DIR $CEILOMETER_API_LOG_DIR
 
     iniset_rpc_backend ceilometer $CEILOMETER_CONF
-
+    iniset $CEILOMETER_CONF DEFAULT notification_workers $API_WORKERS
     iniset $CEILOMETER_CONF DEFAULT notification_topics "$CEILOMETER_NOTIFICATION_TOPICS"
     iniset $CEILOMETER_CONF DEFAULT verbose True
     iniset $CEILOMETER_CONF DEFAULT debug "$ENABLE_DEBUG_LOG_LEVEL"
diff --git a/etc/ceilometer/ceilometer.conf b/etc/ceilometer/ceilometer.conf
index ca32177..32110f9 100644
--- a/etc/ceilometer/ceilometer.conf
+++ b/etc/ceilometer/ceilometer.conf
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 
 [DEFAULT]
-collector_workers = 4
+collector_workers = 1
+notification_workers = 3
 policy_file = /etc/ceilometer/policy.json
 debug = False
 verbose = False